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Constitution
Voice ‘legally safe’ and ‘will not result in excessive litigation’, says Law Council
The proposed Voice to Parliament is “simple, straightforward, safe and modest”, and lawyers have a duty to ensure...
29 September 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Kiefel CJ to retire early
Susan Kiefel AC, the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, will be departing from the bench slightly earlier...
16 June 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Former Bar Association presidents call shadow A-G’s Voice comments ‘wrong’, ‘not correct’
In an interview with News Corp earlier this week, Senator Michaelia Cash said that the proposed Voice to Parliament...
11 May 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Victorian Bar members to vote on body’s Voice stance
Any decision by the Victorian Bar to support the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, or not take a public...
10 May 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
LIV backs Voice
While acknowledging there is a “diversity of views” among its members, the Law Institute of Victoria has thrown its...
09 May 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Victorian Bar president rejects idea that barristers supporting Voice are financially motivated
Following claims made in News Corp last week that pro-Voice barristers will benefit financially from the passing of...
01 May 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Voice ‘just and legally sound’, says Law Council
Australia has “unfinished constitutional business”, and the proposed Voice to Parliament should be passed in a...
24 April 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Proposed Voice ‘enhances’ our Constitution, says Solicitor-General
In advice published earlier this morning by A-G Dreyfus, Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue KC has stressed that the...
21 April 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
‘Close the gap in our Constitution,’ says NSW Bar
The nation’s oldest independent bar association has expressed support for the wording in the amendments proposed for...
14 April 2023
By Jess Feyder
The duty of lawyers to inform and be informed on the proposed constitutional Voice to Parliament
As lawyers, we should not shy away from the difficult discussions to be had in the months to come. We should accept the...
06 April 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
BigLaw firm appoints constitutional law professor as consultant
Gilbert + Tobin has appointed a constitutional lawyer and recognised constitutional expert Professor Anne Twomey AO as...
06 February 2023
By Jess Feyder
Bell report finds secret Morrison ministries ‘corrosive of trust in government’
The reporting stemming from an inquiry undertaken by former High Court judge Virginia Bell into Scott Morrison’s...
25 November 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
Section 92: A Halloween Horror
‘Tis the Halloween season when “darkness falls across the land/The midnight hour is close at hand …” (as...
31 October 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
‘Authorities in Russia are disregarding the country’s Constitution,’ says IBA
The International Bar Association (IBA) has condemned the arrest and pre-trial detention of Russian...
25 August 2022
By Jess Feyder
Morrison’s actions ‘inconsistent’ with the Constitution
The Solicitor-General’s advice on the appointment of former prime minister Scott Morrison to the industry ministry...
23 August 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
How climate change may hurt our Constitution
Our constitutional system is not separate from our national ecosystem. In the wake of increased litigation pertaining...
12 August 2022
By Robyn Tongol
‘This attack should never have occurred’: A-G drops High Court challenge seeking power to deport First Nations people
Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC has withdrawn the High Court challenge to a recent ruling that Aboriginal...
01 August 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
Australia unlikely and unwise to follow Roe v Wade
The 1973 Roe and Wade decision has been recently overturned by the United States Supreme Court, throwing into disarray...
30 June 2022
By Simon Levett
Overturning of Roe v Wade ‘underscores need to protect rights in Australia’
The US Supreme Court’s decision to upend the landmark 1973 decision recognising abortion as a constitutional right,...
27 June 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
Australia has slipped down the international ranks, says ICAC forum
A forum on the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption was held last Friday (3 June) at the NSW State Parliament,...
06 June 2022
By Simon Levett
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